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Subject: Re: Dr. Hyatt is right about chess programs not being GM level.

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 11:52:53 07/01/00

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And it was once said that no one would need more then 640K of ram.

Jason


On July 01, 2000 at 11:29:53, blass uri wrote:

>On July 01, 2000 at 11:03:18, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>On July 01, 2000 at 03:57:00, Jerry Adams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The Best Software on the best machines are not playing grandmanster level
>>>chess. Or should I say that Rebel century is an exception? Generally Software
>>>Programs in my opinion are not demonstrationing grandmaster results? I mean at
>>>40\2hrs or am I mistaken?
>>
>>Mr. Adams,
>>
>>I think that a Dr. Hyatt is pretty competent to make that assertion.  He has
>>been doing this computer chess programming for over a quarter of a century.  He
>>also knows about grandmaster level play.  The machines just don't have a clue in
>>complex positions. They will get better.  In five to seven years we will have 12
>>teraflop home workstations and 8 man tablebase chess programs
>
>I guess that we are not going to have in 5-7 years 8 pieces tablebases.
>
>I guess that we will even not have the complete 7 pieces tablebases in 5-7
>years.
>
>calculating the 5 piece tablebases can take at least some weeks and maybe more
>than a month in the hardare of today(calculating only one 5 piece simple
>tablebase with no pawns like KQR vs KR takes few hours on my pentiumIII450 and
>there are many tablebases to calculate when most of them takes more time).
>
>calculating all the 6 piece tablesbases will take more time in the hardware of
>2007 without parallel search(I assume that computers are twice faster every 18
>monthes so computers will be less than 30 times faster).
>
>parallel search can help but I do not believe it will be enough to generate all
>the 7 piece tablebases in 2007.
>
>There is also a problem of memory and I do not believe that there will be enough
>memory for the 8 piece tablebases in 2007
>
>Uri



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